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Newspaper
Kansas Agitator
Location
Garnett, Kansas, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1904
Page
6
A vintage fashion note describes a May Manton dress pattern for girls aged 12 to 16 in French organdy with Volenci ennes lace trims, featuring a bertha waist, hip yoke skirt, and adjustable low waist with elbow sleeves. Details include fabric yardage for 14 years and a pattern No. 4672, plus fashion tips and household recipes.
An unusual sandwich filling blends finely chopped seeded raisins with English walnuts and beaten egg white lightly seasoned with vanilla. Substituting figs adds variety, but avoid sugar. use equal measures of fruit and nuts.
Paved old shades are popular and boleros the accepted dress mode. Deep cuffs on opening gowns and belts of embroidered antin highlight a tailored finish. Velvet skirts with mousseline waists, delicate silks with moons and constellations appear, while Parisian hose show handpainted birds and arabesques.
The piquet is a little sprig of flowers or small fruit tied to spring hats as a sentinel ornament. It is normally placed to the left of the front when worn, though left handed wearers may favor the right side. The piquet may also appear to the right of the front on slippers or stocks, and is described as an aigrette or pompon made of flowers rather than feathers.
A new linen idea features loosely woven fabrics resembling scrim with delicate color effects on an ecru background. Pure white melts show pale green intermingling while fern leaves dot the border, creating a refined decorative style.
A tidbit of old time guidance covers extinguishing chimney fires with sulphur, using quicklime to keep air dry, and cleaning a mirror with methylated spirit and whiting, followed by polishing. Ends with a note on a cup of fresh tea and a pinch.
Describes accordion plaited blouses in soft fabrics with a drop yoke and embroidered crepe de chine option. Provides yardage for sizes, lace, and belt silk. May Manton pattern No 4680, sizes 2 to 40, mailed for ten cents.
Plain white goods show little change from last year with thin airy items taking the spotlight. Plain and embroidered linens from sheer to coarse weaves will be used for lawn and whitewaist salts. Buyers may choose dimities French lawns wash chiffons muslin and English nainsook while embroidered swisses in various dots or stripes are favored.
An advertisement for a May Manton pattern No. 4690 features a smart Eton style coat with options for a fancy collar and velvet cuffs or plain pleeves, including a fashionable vest. The tan chiffon cloth design uses turmoyer collar, velvet wind cuffs, a cape collar overlaid with Russian rice, and a white silk vest with lingerie frills. Sizes 42 to 42 require specific yardage for fabric and trims, mailed for ten cents.
Maids and society girls embrace monocles as a trendy accessory amid fashion mania. Dowagers and princesse line up, many wearing refined mounts to guard lashes, while experts link style to Garibaldi era chic and Napoleon era influences.
Miss Mina Gage a trained nurse and Leroy Leach famed rifle shot married in New Orleans after a short courtship while he was ill she cared for him and their bond formed in sickness proving their worthiness remind readers that true love rises from care and adversity despite lacking dramatic fanfare
The New York Sun notes Transvaal mine owners aim to restore past gains and double production. With cheap Chinese labor, output could rise by about one third, likely lowering gold value and influencing prices and bank reserves. The balance between supply and demand remains debated.
A Louisville Herald feature quotes A B Dreyfus of Pensacola about oysters exhibiting eccentricities. He recalls oysters going into mood and clacking like rat traps after whisky, describing a blue pointer found in liquor and a drunken oyster as the sublime of nebrin ton.
Bowles, retired from the navy construction department, now heads a Quincy mass building plant and told the Master Builders and Traders' association that the United States will soon build ships for the world. He has twenty five years in the business and expressed strong optimism about U S shipbuilding leadership.
The eight by sixteen foot map is displayed in the Department of Commerce and Labor in Washington. It shows every item of interest to American manufacturers to help them prepare to do business with foreign countries.
In Chicago creditors set limits on coinage for debt payment, noting standard dollars are legal tender and may be taken in any amount, while many small denomination and obsolete coins have limited value. The piece discusses what coins creditors can accept and which are effectively worthless in repayment.
A traveler’s tale from Siberia shows a lone Anglo-Saxon merchant living under exileLike clockwork a governor’s letter orders a thousand rubles for monuments to emperors poets historians or generals The proposed memorials never pass beyond committee stage as main authorities enforce survival by polite extortion
Tourists in Nagasaki are surprised to hear sampan men and rickshaw drivers shout Spanish words like amigo and hombre. Shops echo similar terms such as no sabe. The explanation: Japanese unaware they are using Spanish, learned from American soldiers returning from the Philippines who used Spanish phrases with Filipinos, mistaking them for English slang.
J W Lyon of Englewood recounts a 1851 voyage to San Francisco aboard the Flying Cloud commanded by Captain J Perkins Creesy of Marblehead. The ship completed the journey in eighty nine days and twenty three hours, a time later matched but never beaten. Crewey pressed his crew hard guiding studding sails fourteen times in one day. They sighted land only once on the first voyage, near Cape Horn at three miles distance.
Afghan justice, in a native irregular force, reports a light case. A man accused of stealing a shirt is sentenced by the Afghan chief: ten days for theft, ten days for not guarding the shirt, and ten days for meddling in others’ affairs, amid the humorous proceedings.
Fragmentary verse presents dreamlike images of Florentina and Auraly Binets. The arcane lines evoke midnight tides, perfumed bowers, and spirits moving where the olden Saute fence stands.
In a paper before the Academy of Science in Paris Dubola shows that Roentgen rays can inspect a lying oyster without harm to detect pearls. If a tiny pearl is found the oyster is returned to life to develop a larger pearl as disease progresses.
A vintage notice promotes Wabash Railroad access to the St Louis World’s Fair avoiding Union Station crowds. It also advertises Allen’s Foot-Ease for foot ailments and a claim about young girls preferring quantity to quality in romantic matters.
A drafty note reports grocers refusing to stock De lance Starch Dechn with 120m brands and 10 baud, knowing it cannot be sold to customers who once bought the 1002 package. The Defiance Sterch remark is included, and a manicure girl’s comment about a Keorn finger ends the note.
A Milwaukee woman testifies to relief from ovarian trouble ulceration and pelvic pains after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She notes improved strength appetite and healing over eleven weeks and thanks the remedy for her recovery.
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